Abstract

We show that a class of semilinear Laplace-Beltrami equations
on the unit sphere
in $\mathbb{R}^n$ has infinitely many rotationally symmetric solutions.
The solutions to
these equations are the solutions to a two point boundary value
problem for a
singular ordinary differential equation. We prove the existence
of such solutions
using energy and phase plane analysis. We derive a
Pohozaev-type
identity
in
order to prove that the energy to an associated initial value
problem tends
to infinity as the energy at the singularity tends to infinity.
The nonlinearity is allowed to grow as fast as $|s|^{p-1}s$ for
$|s|$ large
with $1 \lt p \lt (n+5)/(n-3)$.